Pizza Peaks in the Valley (PNT, 2019)

This exploration of pizza goes 12,000 years deep, focusing on a rising talent (Myke Olsen) and a world grandmaster (Chris Bianco).

You Can Eat a Dinner in Phoenix for $364. Should You? (PNT, 2018)

“Dinner at Binkley’s, 19 to 28 courses over three to four hours, is rigged to feel like a dinner party. You start at 6:30. After a run of bites on the patio, the night’s diners, seven the day I was in but as many as 24 some nights, move into the bar. After several dishes that twist and elevate bar food, you finish in the dining room. All the while your group, seated apart from the other diners, can step away from dinner’s thread at any time, and move freely into other parts of the house.”

Finding Puffy, Craggy, Deep-Rooted, Brilliant Fry Bread (PNT, 2018)

Fry bread is at once wholly and hardly Native American. On a summer day in the southwest, I borrowed a car and hit the fields and city to discover the complex food.